This American Life

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This American Life
 is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.1 million listeners. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around one million people downloading each week. From 2006-2008, we produced a television version of This American Life on the Showtime network, which won three Emmys. We're also the co-producers, with NPR News, of the economics podcast and blog Planet Money. And a half dozen stories from the radio show are being developed into films.

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This American Life is a weekly public radio show produced by Chicago Public Media and broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners each week. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around one million people downloading each week. This American Life is distributed independently with WBEZ, and is available to stations weekly via the PRX Exchange broadcast distribution technology

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Intimate and personal dispatches from two very different battlefields: A small town in the Syrian war; and the U.S. opioid epidemic. Each came from...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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The one thing you know for sure when you're watching a romantic comedy is that it's going to turn out okay in the end. When you're living one? Not ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Satan! In his many surprising manifestations, all around us.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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We revisit those moments of calm before the storm, when things could have gone very differently, but instead, they went to hell.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories from border walls around the world, where one place ends and another begins. And the strange ecosystems that arise.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Libraries aren't just for books. They're often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber café, a place to find answ...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about the intersection of Christmas and retail, including David Sedaris's story "Santaland Diaries," which was first broadcast on NPR's Mor...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Documents you don't normally think of, showing you things you didn't expect.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen says, nobody ever talked about the most important historical event ever to happen there: in 1862, it ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:00